[Solved] Hidden Files in File Open and Save dialogs

When I try to open or save a file in a hidden folder, or want to save over top of an existing hidden file, I find that the dialog box does not show hidden files and folders. Is there a way to force hidden folders and files to be shown in file dialogs? (I have Thunar set to display hidden files and folders by default, but this setting seems not to apply to file dialogs).

Re: [Solved] Hidden Files in File Open and Save dialogs

jenningsthecat wrote:

When I try to open or save a file in a hidden folder, or want to save over top of an existing hidden file, I find that the dialog box does not show hidden files and folders. Is there a way to force hidden folders and files to be shown in file dialogs? (I have Thunar set to display hidden files and folders by default, but this setting seems not to apply to file dialogs).

Thanks

Did you use Ctrl-h in the dialogue box, as you would in Thunar, to toggle the appearance of hidden files and folders?

Re: [Solved] Hidden Files in File Open and Save dialogs

Indeed, it seems that this might be involving a global gtk configuration option. An application can set/unset the show hidden for the "GtkFileChooser" window (see http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/gtk/GtkFileC … ow-hidden). So it could be also something that Thunar is or isn't configured to do.

Does anyone know if a) the default gtk components behaviour can be somehow configured (I ain't familiar with gtk developing)b) Thunar is can be configured to specifically set the show hidden files in FileChooser

PS I hope GtkFileChooser is the class associated with the open window and I am not just writing stupid things

Re: [Solved] Hidden Files in File Open and Save dialogs

Hi, I tried creating the directory and the file with the contents you described but it made no difference. It broke nothing as far as I can see in the system's beehavior but still doesn't fix the issue with the default behavior of the open dialog. Firefox (I mention this since you had it as an example in your previous post) as well as other applications aren't affected by the presence of this conf file.

Re: [Solved] Hidden Files in File Open and Save dialogs

What I find strange is that I remember for as long as I've been using Linux, in different distributions, ~/.config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser.ini is always created.Not saying that you have something broken but later I'll try to think a bit about it.

Re: [Solved] Hidden Files in File Open and Save dialogs

It seems I did sth wrong when initially creating the directory and the file. The presence of this ini fil does change the default behavior of the Open File dialog, so now I have the dot files always visible. Thanks for the information!